Pink-spotted Bonnet

Mycena zephira

Coniferous forests, on fallen needles. Summer, autumn.

Fruiting bodies small. Cap 2-3 (4) cm across, bell-shaped-conical when young, later flattened, with an umbo, translucently furrowed, cream, whitish-cream, pink-spotted. Gills distant, thick, not narrow, greyish, pink-dotted when old, adnexed, fragile. Stem 5 - 7x0.2-0.3 cm, fragile, the colour of the cap, white-hairy at the base. Flesh white, thin, fragile, without any particular smell or taste. Characteristic features: fruiting bodies fragile, growing on fallen needles, in groups, sometimes even in colonies. Grows in coniferous forests, in places as if sown. Very common. A litter saprotroph. Inedible.